Teaching is not rocket science; it is much, much harder than that.
—LAURILLARD, 2012, P. 3

Chapter 1: Educators, Learning Design and the Science of Learning

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  • Edutopia: Cultivating Student Resilience by Marilyn Price-Mitchell (edut.to/2WKWGer)

Deep Dive

  • Hoadley, C., & Van Haneghan, J. (2011). The Learning Sciences: Where they came from and what it means for instructional designers. Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (3rd ed., pp. 53-63). New York: Pearson.
  • Learning Designer. The Learning Designer is a tool to help teachers and lecturers design teaching and learning activities and share their learning designs with each other. [Web site] www.ucl.ac.uk/learning-designer/
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24783
  • Sawyer, R. K. (2008). Optimizing learning implications of learning sciences research. Innovating to learn, learning to innovate, 45, 35-98.